The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

What Media Bias Looks Like

  Rush Limbaugh has remarked that if all he wanted to talk about was media bias, he could spend all day, every day talking about it. As someone who’s been in the conservative journalism business for more than 20 years of my 32-year career, I know exactly what Rush means. Our job, as communicators on […]

‘It Never Happened. Confirm Kavanaugh.’

The last couple of days, liberals on Twitter have been raging because these pro-Kavanaugh ads from the Judicial Crisis Network have been airing on CNN and MSNBC:   “The accusations against Brett Kavanaugh are a smear. . . . It never happened. Confirm Kavanaugh.” Liberals are used to living inside a media-created partisan bubble. Yesterday, […]

Never Negotiate With Sociopaths: Liars, Democrats and the #Kavanaugh Smear

  There was a moment during Thursday’s hearing when Christine Blasey Ford was asked, “Was it communicated to you by your counsel or someone else, that the committee had asked to interview you and that — that they offered to come out to California to do so?” At which point, her lawyer Michael Bromwich grabbed […]

A Steaming Pile of Bad Journalism

  The most important fact about the Deborah Ramirez story in the New Yorker is that the same story was rejected by the New York Times, which spent a week chasing the story, interviewing dozens of Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale classmates, but was unable to verify Ramirez’s story. Perhaps more disturbing is that Jane Meyer, who […]

The Ramirez Smear Against Kavanaugh Exposes the Desperation of Democrats

  “This is a smear, plain and simple,” Judge Brett Kavanaugh said in response to the implausible claim by former Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez. It is remarkable — and a frightening testimony to the ongoing destruction of journalism standards — that the New Yorker was willing to publish this claim despite the fact that Ronan […]

Big Trouble at the ‘Tiffany’ Network: Another ‘Get Woke, Go Broke’ Lesson?

  The top of the stack this morning at Drudge: TIMES UP FOR ’60 MINS’ CHIEF… CBSNEWS On-Cam Ambush Of Own Exec! Network Airs Disturbing Fager Text… Allegations of inappropriate conduct… Threats and Deception: Why Board Turned On Moonves…  The takedown of CBS boss Les Moonves was followed immediately by the takedown of 60 Minutes […]

What Happened to Oliver Darcy?

Oliver Darcy as a young conservative in 2013. The purge of Alex Jones and his Infowars site from social media is the work of one man, CNN’s Oliver Darcy, who in recent months has been on a sort of jihad again Jones. While I have never been an admirer of Jones (a 9/11 “Truther” who […]

CNN’s Favorite ‘Republican Strategist’

“I think the pictures of the cruelty of this administration are a very deliberate part of this. . . . They’re only talking to their core supporters. And their core supporters want anybody who’s darker than a latte deported. They’re not happy about immigration of any kind.” — Rick Wilson, CNN, July 11, 2018 Running […]

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